Celebrating the ACP Centennial: From the Annals Archive—Emergency Response and Life Support

During the 2015 centennial year of the American College of Physicians, publisher of Annals of Internal Medicine, Annals editors will link an article in each issue with an earlier paper from our archives addressing the same disease or clinical question. We hope our readers find this interesting and we welcome comments, especially from physicians who were practicing at the time of publication of the original paper who might offer insight into the impact of the earlier paper on their knowledge or practice.

In an observational study published in this issue, Sanghavi and colleagues (1) found that among Medicare beneficiaries with major trauma, stroke, acute myocardial infarction, or respiratory failure, those who received prehospital care consisting of basic life support were more likely to survive and have other positive outcomes than those who received advanced life support.